Accounting Manager

• Lead high-impact accounting advisory and internal audit engagements for public sector organizations
• Manage engagements from planning through delivery
• Develop engagement plans and workpaper templates
• Execute work plans and ensure timely, high-quality results
• Lead, mentor, and develop engagement teams
• Set performance expectations and provide regular constructive feedback
• Troubleshoot engagement issues by obtaining documentation or clarification
• Draft recommendations for audit findings, business process improvements, corrective action plans, and value-add opportunities
• Support client deliverables and presentations
• Contribute to business development, proposal writing, and client relationship support
• Advise clients on technical accounting, internal controls, risk management, and evolving financial and regulatory requirements

Public Sector Audit and Accounting Advisory Manager

• Run the monthly close process across multiple locations and legal entities
• Review and post journal entries, manage accruals, and ensure accurate cutoff
• Ensure accurate revenue recognition for distribution sales and margin reporting
• Oversee distribution-based inventory accounting, including standard costs, ocean freight, import fees and duties, reserves, obsolescence, and adjustments
• Ensure accurate revenue recognition, vendor expenses, and margin reporting
• Assist with audit fieldwork for financial audits
• Reconcile and balance general ledger accounts, including bank reconciliations, fixed assets, prepaids, receivables, payables, commissions payable, debt, and payroll liabilities
• Collaborate with internal teams to resolve billing or payment discrepancies
• Directly manage junior Finance staff (AP/AR specialists) and review work product for accuracy and completeness while developing team members’ skills and judgment
• Help migrate potential acquisitions onto common systems, charts of accounts, and close calendars
• Support balance sheet setup, inventory validation, and working capital normalization
• Assist the Corporate Controller as needed and perform other duties as assigned

• Perform bank reconciliations and post journal entries to ensure accurate financial records
• Deliver accurate work within tight reporting deadlines and own key deliverables
• Prepare and maintain workpapers covering capital activity, investment transactions, and income and expense accruals
• Update and manage distribution waterfall (carried interest) models
• Calculate management fees and produce supporting schedules
• Analyze transaction documentation to understand investment structures, accounting impacts, and accrual requirements
• Support the year-end audit process with internal teams, clients, and external auditors
• Build relationships with clients and stakeholders, including legal counsel, auditors, and tax advisors
• Work with industry experts, modern platforms, and evolving technologies in private markets fund accounting

Senior Associate, Private Markets Fund Accounting

• Prepare journal entries for unclaimed property
• Input information into the computer, analyze output, and make corrections
• Monitor internal controls and review authorizations, approval limits, disbursements, and governmental reporting information
• Process bank transactions, including voids, stop payments, and reconciliations
• Maintain orderly documentation, including invoices, employee records, outstanding checks, month-end AP reports, journal entries, fixed asset support, cash receipts, and canceled checks
• Prepare reconciliations and keep accounts clean and up to date
• Assist management, vendors, employees, governmental agencies, auditors, and banks with information generated by the Accounting office
• Confirm and reconcile vendor statements and pay appropriately approved expenditures accurately and efficiently
• Communicate vendor issues or problems to the direct Supervisor
• Verify expenditures to ensure Carle is regulatory and compliant
• Cross-train to perform other functions within the Accounting office

Accounting Technician 2 – A/P

• Process and record financial transactions using double-entry bookkeeping principles
• Perform bookkeeping functions including data entry, account maintenance, and transaction categorization
• Complete bank and account reconciliations
• Process payroll and provide payroll-related support for small business clients
• Prepare balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements
• Generate monthly and quarterly financial reports
• Assist Tax Advisors with tax return data entry and uploading returns through the Block Advisors Fulfillment Network
• Identify, research, and address accounting discrepancies or irregularities
• Partner with Account Managers and Tax Advisors on bookkeeping, payroll, and tax-related client needs
• Communicate with clients, vendors, suppliers, banking contacts, and internal business partners
• Support sales tax filing and other compliance-related bookkeeping activities
• Build client relationships, increase retention, and identify referral and additional-service opportunities
• Maintain accuracy, confidentiality, and attention to detail
• Stay current on bookkeeping practices, payroll regulations, and Block Advisors tools and processes
• Collaborate with team members to deliver a seamless client experience and support business growth initiatives

Accounting Specialist

• Lead multiple concurrent accounting advisory engagements related to capital markets transactions, complex business combinations, and transaction events
• Advise clients on transaction-related accounting and reporting considerations using advanced U.S. GAAP, IFRS, and complex accounting knowledge
• Oversee preparation and review of technical accounting analyses, position papers, and client deliverables
• Manage engagement economics, staffing models, and resource deployment
• Anticipate client needs, address complex issues, and identify opportunities to enhance client value and service delivery
• Collaborate with audit, tax, deal, and other advisory teams across the deal lifecycle
• Develop and mentor managers and senior team members
• Support practice growth and client relationship development
• Manage increased workload during transaction execution periods

Accounting Manager jobs in Illinois

Public Sector Audit and Accounting Advisory Manager